Environmentalism has turned into a religion (i.e. faith manipulation program). This is also more broadly the danger of Politics. Economics has already crossed the threshold.

Sounds like you made out very well on that deal. 1500 yard range? I would have taken that too. LOL

Actually, they don't buy most of the land they cross, they purchase a easement that's listed on your deed. It allows them to cross your land for access to install, inspect and maintain. They are forced to return the surface of your property to the condition it was before they crossed your land.

If you choose to protest and not accept the offer, thanks to the liberal side of SCOTUS the court can force your hand "for the public good". While I disagree with this on most levels, a easement is not the same thing as taking you property from you.

In full disclosure, I just went through some of this when a pipe line was installed across a part of my land. This ground is land I bought years ago so that I'd always have a place to shoot and hunt. The two 36" underground pipelines set twenty feet apart required the clearing of my land 100' wide down the full length of my property. Since the land is not used for agriculture, I wasn't paid that much, but what I did get was a 100 foot wide cleared area that they mounded a twenty foot backstop on the rear of my ground and a smooth, hard packed gravel road all the way down. I ended up with a 1500yd range. Not everybody would have wanted this, but for my needs, it is a perfect improvement to my ground. One of my neighbors asked for trees to be replanted and they did that for him. Immature trees, of course, but they were very accommodating. They also put in a new culvert and access road that would have cost me tens of thousands to do.

All in all, it was well done.

Yes. Here is a website listing all the groups soros openly backs while he 's happily making billions in offshore oil drilling in Brazil.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewS...

It's easy to hold a vigil when you don't have a job. Amazing that these imbeciles would prohibit someone from earning a living.

Most of this is the usual stupid resistance to true and factual progress in favor of a bunch of emotionalism and speculation with one exception.

“Kleeb said 115 landowners in Nebraska still refuse to sign agreements with pipeline developer TransCanada and would engage in nonviolent civil disobedience if the company tries to lay pipe through their land.”

If I own land then I own it. If I refuse to sell and/or allow a pipeline to traverse it then that is the final word on the matter. Yes, it may be a stupid decision on my part because I could have charged an annual use fee instead of selling, but it is MY decision to make.